As an ex-mechanical engineer and farmer, Clint Van Marrewijk has probably had a varied pathway to co-founding a data driven New Zealand company that is gaining exponential global growth and changing the way that people are interacting with their environment. While ThunderMaps is being used by councils and large organisations around the globe, the concept was sparked by van Marrewijk’s time at a KiwiSaver company where he helped to develop back-end systems which utilised data. It was here that he realised the power of data. When the business was sold to Kiwibank in 2012, van Marrewijk saw an opportunity to…